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Tezuka Mix Magazine's Launch Delayed Indefinitely
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official website for the Tezuka Mix magazine project posted a notice saying that the magazine's launch has been postponed. The Micro Magazine editorial department cited "production advancement circumstances," and referred readers to its own website for any future news regarding the project. The rest of the website, aside from the notice, is no longer active.
The fist issue was scheduled to ship on April 30, and it was going to run monthly for 18 issues. The Micro Magazine editorial department apologized for making the announcement so soon before the manga was scheduled to launch.
The magazine would have featured shorts based on Tezuka Productions titles by various Japanese and Western artists. The Japanese contributors would have included Hiroyuki Takei (Shaman King, Ultimo, Nekogahara: Stray Cat Samurai), Atsushi Kaneko (Bambi and her Pink Gun, Deathco, SOIL), Gengoroh Tagame (My Brother’s Husband), Kotobuki Shiriagari (Sukiyaki Western Django, Ano Hi Kara no Manga), and Enokids (Kotoura-san), among others.
The spinoff works from contributing Western artists would have included Message to Adolf by Juan Diaz Canales, Jungle Emperor by Reno Lemaire, Black Jack by Ken Niimura and Joe Kelly, Son-Goku the Monkey by Kenny Ruiz, Princess Knight by Elsa Brants, Metropolis by Mathieu Bablet, Dororo by Philippe Cardona and Florence Torta, and Apollo's Song by Luis NCT.
The site listed Rumiko Tezuka, the daughter of Osamu Tezuka, as well as Livedoor founder and former president Takafumi Horie as columnists for the magazine.
The magazine was conceived as a celebration of the 90th anniversary since the pioneering manga creator Osamu Tezuka's birth in 1928.
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